Shade-roller bracket.



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(Application filed Jan. 3, 1901.) (No Modal.)

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JOSEPH J. DE LONG, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHADE-ROLLER BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,164, dated May 27,1902.

Application filed January 3, 1901. Serial No. 41,960. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPrI J. DE Lone, a citizen of the United States,residing in Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Shade-Roller Brackets, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates especially to devices employed for holdingshade-rollers in place in or upon a window-frame, and has for its objectthe provision of a cheap, neat, and simple bracket which may be readilyand easily applied to a window-frame and the two opposite bracketsadjusted and held in proper relation to each other to insure ahorizontal position of the roller and shade.

To attain the desired end, my invention consists, essentially, incertain novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts andpeculiarities of construction and operation, all of which willbehereinafter first fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a !planView of the bracket-holder or base-plate with the bracket removed. Fig.2 and Fig. 3 are like views of the bracket for holding the oppositespindles of the shade-roller. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a reversiblebracket which may be used at either extremity of the roller. Fig. 5isaside elevation of the bracket shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view ofthe parts assembled together. I

Similar numerals of reference wherever they occur indicate correspondingparts in all the figures.

1 is the bracket-holding or base plate having at each side a turned edgeor lip 2, forming slideways for a bracket-plate.

3 is a perforation for the reception of a nail or screw near oneextremity of the plate 1, and 4 is a slot cut in said plate opposite tothe perforation 3. I

5 is a bracket having at one extremity a projection 6, provided with asocket S for the square shade-roller spindle and near the oppositeextremity a perforation 7.

The plate shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings has a projection 10, providedwith a perforation 9 for the reception of the round spindle ofashade-roller. In Fig. i the plate 11 is provided with projections ateach end,having the socket 8 and perforation 9 therein, respectively,the object of this arrangement being to provide a bracket-plate whichmay be reversed in position in the holding-plate, as required by theroller-bearin g wherewith such bracket-plate is to be employed.

When constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoingdescription, my invention is used in the following manner: Plates 1 aresecured upon each side of the window-frame by a single nail or screwpassing through the perforations 3. The requisite bracket-plate ispushed into position therein, and after vertical adjustment a singlenail or screw is applied through the perforation 7 and the slot 4, thesetwo nails or screws being all that-is required to firmly secure thebrackets in place.

It will thus be seen that my invention obviates the moving of the nailsor screws holding the brackets in order to secure perfect and propervertical adjustment, and only two such nails or screws are required ineach bracket, avoiding the mutilation of the woodwork of thewindow-frame by the withdrawal of the fastening devices when theoriginal adjustment is inaccurate and also enabling the most unskilfuluser to apply the brackets in position.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shade-roller bracket in which is comprised a base-plate having aslideway therein formed by turning over the edges of the material, and asingle perforation, and a slot for the passage of a holding screw ornail, in combination with a movable bracket-piece for the reception of ashade-roller bearing arranged to engage in the slideway, the saidbracket-piece having an opening for the reception of a retaining screwor nail which registers with the slot in the base-plate.

2. A shade-roller bracket in which is comprised a base-plate having aslideway therein ing for the reception of a retaining screw or I beingprovided with an opening for the renail which registers with the slot inthe base- I ception of a holding nail or screw, which also plate. passesthrough the base or holding plate.

' 3. A shade-roller bracket in which is oom- Signed by me at New Yorkthis 27th day 5 prised a base or holding plate havinga slideof December,1900.

way therein formed by turning over the edges of the material, and asingle perforation for JOSEPH DE LONG the passage of a holding nail orscrew, in Witnesses:

combination with a bracket-piece arranged GEO. H. HARMAN, 10 to take inthe slideway, said bracket-piece l A. M. PIERCE.

